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I am a human being. I am not an actor.
Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.
Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island.
TV never takes any chances; they never do anything different.
I want to build the next CNN with 'VICE' - it's within my grasp.
Omaha is a game that was invented by a sadist and is played by masochists.
When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.
A lot of what happens in the world is full-on crazy and doesn't get reported on.
I don't go to bars and stuff like I used to, but I live each day to make something.
American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.
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When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.
Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.
I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.
All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.
Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.'
I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life.
I want to go to the Maldives before they sink, but just because it's the most beautiful place on earth.
I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.
I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."
I have a place in Costa Rica that is in the middle of the jungle. There's no Internet. There's no TV. Do I work there? Hell no.
People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care.
I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.
I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.
My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there.
The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.
I'm addicted to when people are bringing you around their country, telling you their stories. They become so enthusiastic, so passionate.
Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.
Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative.
I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life. I became sort of aware. I used to get so angry.
I don't know about you, but there is nothing that's scarier than young people who have no future. If you take away someone's future, they have nothing to lose.
I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.
I want to be like Tom Freston. Tom just flies around everywhere, gets to make movies, gets to start TV shows, hang out with cool people and do whatever he wants.
I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things - not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to.
If you're big in Montreal, you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto, you're big in Canada. But if you're big in New York, you're big in the rest of the world.
Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.
Advertisers realize that Gen Y is the largest purchasing cohort. Also, that you're going to have to accept some different modes of thinking if you're going to get to them.
There are only two companies in the world that can help me. That's Facebook and Google, because they are going to make me the largest digital network in the world, which is my goal.
The whole sort of debate of classic objective journalism versus a new immersion journalism - that can go on forever... I made no bones about my position: I don't think you can be objective.
The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.
The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.'
Gen Y consume most of their media online and mobile. Gen Y, as the Baby Boomers drop off, are the largest cohort with the largest amount of money - despite the fact that half of them are unemployed.
It's our job to get into the hardest-to-see places and bring back the best footage - we have the best footage of North Korea ever shot. If that's a stunt, then I'll keep on doing stunts until I die.
My life, like most people's, has been negatively affected by cancer, and the thought of my young children living in an age where this is no longer humanity's No. 1 health fear was simply overpowering.
I think the biggest issue for legacy media - both TV and film - is that it just costs too much money to develop a TV series or movie. And most of them don't work. Then the one that works has to pay for the rest.
If you look not just at the Arab spring, but at what I call the youth spring that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.
If you look not just at the Arab Spring, but at what I call the 'Youth Spring' that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.
One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'
I always used to say that I wanted to be the next MTV, the next ESPN, the next CNN rolled up into one, and everyone would laugh at me. But now I think that people are finally wising up because, digitally, you can do that.